Time and Tide Quotes

“and then a solitary green speck appeared in the top left, a little, flickering oasis of hope in this digitally-challenged desert.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“Death, it seemed, was a series of, a logical sequence of, negatives: the heart is not beating, the lungs are not breathing, the eyes no longer see. It is an absence of positives. When he sat beside Sheila, holding her hand as she died quietly in their own home, he had watched the positives depart, one by one, like migrating birds before the onset of a long winter. Signs of spring had been slow to return after that.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“Who would you have sent?’ ‘You and I.’ ‘For a number of fairly bloody obvious reasons, yes. I think it should be ‘me’, by the way.’ ‘That’s what I said – you and I.’ Smith gave a small sigh, concluding that this was one tide race he could not paddle out of entirely just yet.’ ‘No. I think you should have said “You and me”. You would have sent you and me.’ Waters seemed puzzled and surprised. ‘Really? My English teacher always said “You and I” was more correct.’ ‘Well, not in every conceivable semantic situation! Think about it – you wouldn’t say “I would send I”, would you? You’d say “I would send me”. So the fact that someone else is present in the sentence as well doesn’t alter that…”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“It was time. Too much was changing too quickly now, and at the same time he was losing the ability to adapt to change. A natural process, just the way of things, and if one resists it for too long one becomes bitter and then foolish and then a danger to others.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“Too much was changing too quickly now, and at the same time he was losing the ability to adapt to change. A natural process, just the way of things, and if one resists it for too long one becomes bitter and then foolish and then a danger to others. He had seen these things happen to older men before him, and he was lucky – he could choose not to have it happen to him. He had done so.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“A born detective never needs to be told that everybody lies – he or she has always known it.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“because it isn’t just a room one is leaving behind but the people in it. And in the end, nothing matters more than other people.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide